How Many Wives Has Keith Richards Had?

English musician and singer, Keith Richards has been married to American model, Patti Hansen ​ since 1983.

Before then, Richards was romantically involved with Italian-born actress Anita Pallenberg who died on 13 June 2017, from 1967 to 1979, after which they remained cordial.

Together they have a son, Marlon Leon Sundeep (named after the actor Marlon Brando), born in 1969, and a daughter, Angela (originally named Dandelion), born in 1972.

Their third child, a son named Tara Jo Jo Gunne—after Richards’s and Pallenberg’s friend, Guinness heir Tara Browne—died aged just over two months, of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), on 6 June 1976.

Richards was away on tour at the time, something he said has haunted him since. He was criticised at the time for performing that night after learning of the death, but he later said it was the only way he could cope.

Before they became romantically linked, Pallenberg had been involved with his fellow Rolling Stones bandmate and close friend Brian Jones.

The two became a couple on a trip to Morocco that Jones had to abandon when he fell ill; the subsequent relationship between Richards and Pallenberg weighed heavily on Jones, and strained his relationship with the rest of the Rolling Stones.

Richards met his wife, model Patti Hansen, in 1979. They married on 18 December 1983, Richards’s 40th birthday, and have two daughters, Theodora Dupree and Alexandra Nicole, born in 1985 and 1986, respectively.

In September 2014 Richards published a children’s book with Theodora, Gus and Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar. Theodora was reported as contributing pen and ink illustrations for the book, which was inspired by the man she was named after (Richards’s grandfather Theodore Augustus Dupree).

He has five grandchildren, three from his son Marlon and two from his daughter Angela.